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³ L420.

⁴ The Hull letters are calendared in Stanewell, L. M., ed., Calendar of the Ancient Deeds, Letters, Miscellaneous Old Documents, etc., in UK Archines of the Corporation (Hull, 1951), pp. 154–308.Google Scholar

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¹⁴ HCA, BRG1 (Freeman register 1396–1645), fol. 179; Hull bench bk. 5, pp. 234, 422, 542, 821.

¹⁵ BL, Harl. MS 166, fol. 218; Mahony, Michael, ‘The Savile Affair and the Politics of the Long Parliament’, PH vii (1988), p. 218.Google Scholar

¹⁶ L375; L376; L379; L383, L424; L426; L430; L463; L464; L465.

¹⁷ L424; L426.

¹⁸ L375; L383; L463; L465; L477.

¹⁹ L428.

²⁰ L401; L428; L444; L476; L481; Wildridge, T. Tindall, ed., The Hull Letters (Hull, 1887), p. 103.Google Scholar

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²⁸ L370; L426; L427.

²⁹ L424; L426; L429; L434.

³⁰ L417; L418; L421; L426; L448; L468; L471; L491.

³¹ For Thorpe's life and career see David Scott, draft biography of Francis Thorpe, History of Parliament Trust.

³² L348.

³³ I am grateful to Simon Healy for information concerning Hull's municipal revenues before the Civil War.

³⁴ Dean, David M., ‘Public or Private? London Leather and Legislation in Elizabethan England’, HJ xxxi (1988), p. 535.Google Scholar

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³⁶ HCA, Hull bench bk. 5, p. 709.

³⁷ L444.

³⁸ L347; L350; L404.

³⁹ L293.

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⁴² L353; L360; L371; L425.

⁴³ L360; L362; L378; L396; L399; L404; L425; L428; L463; L480.

⁴⁴ For Widdrington's life and career, see David Scott, draft biography of Sir Thomas Widdrington, History of Parliament Trust.

⁴⁵ BL, Add. MS 21427, fol. 262; HCA, Hull bench bk. 6, p. 277.

⁴⁶ Adamson, J. S. A., ‘Parliamentary Management, Men-of-Business and the House of Lords, 1640–49’, A Pillar of the Constitution: The House of Lards in British Poitics, 1640–1784, ed. Jones, Clyve (London, 1989), pp. 32Google Scholar n. 58, 33 n. 62; Adamson, , ‘The English Nobility and the Projected Settlement of 1647’, HJ xxx (1987), p. 598.Google Scholar

⁴⁷ L369.

⁴⁸ L368; L369; L373; L424; L426; L468; L480.

⁴⁹ L293.

⁵⁰ L371.

⁵¹ L332; L335; L342; L347; L351; L360; Wildridge, , Hull Letters, p. 52.Google Scholar

⁵² L342.

⁵³ L342.

⁵⁴ L331.

⁵⁵ L345.

⁵⁶ L347.

⁵⁷ L345; L358

⁵⁸ L360; L361; L365.

⁵⁹ L360; L368.

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⁶² L362; L369.

⁶³ L360; L361.

⁶⁴ L362.

⁶⁵ L362.

⁶⁶ L368; L369; L370.

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⁶⁸ L371.

⁶⁹ L373.

⁷⁰ [Buchanan, David], An Explanation of Some Truths (London, 1646), pp. 53, 55–6Google Scholar (BL, E314/15).

⁷¹ L416.

⁷² Thorpe engaged Philip Lord Wharton to speed the ordinance through the Upper House: L464; L468.

⁷³ L456.

⁷⁴ L454.

⁷⁵ L458

⁷⁶ L468.

⁷⁷ L475.

⁷⁸ Robert Tittler has argued that municipal legislative initiatives often favoured the interests of the governing élite at the expense of ‘frequently voiceless majority’: Tittler, Robert, ‘Elizabethan Towns and the ‘Points of Contact’: Parliament’, PH viii (1989), p. 279.Google Scholar

⁷⁹ L391.

⁸⁰ L482.

⁸¹ L500; L506; L507; CSPD 1648–9, pp. 138, 226Google Scholar; Whitelocke, Bulstrode, Memorials of the English Affairs (4 vols, Oxford, 1853), ii. 279–80.Google Scholar

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⁸³ For example, see Mercurios Melancholicus, no. 38 (London, 8–15 05 1648), p. 228Google Scholar (BL, E442/14); L500.

⁸⁴ L501.

⁸⁵ HCA, Hull bench bk. 5, p. 820.

⁸⁶ VCH, East Riding, i. 108.Google Scholar

⁸⁷ A point that T. Tindall Wildridge himself conceded: Wildridge, , ed., Hull Letters, p. xiii.Google Scholar

⁸⁸ Thomas Coleman was appointed minister of St. Peter's, Cornhill, after he had been driven from his living at Blyton, Lincolnshire, by the Royalists during the Civil War. In a letter to the mayor of Hull, dated 18 Sept. 1645, Coleman declared that while he looked upon the Independents as ‘honest men’, he disliked the gathering of churches, and ‘on the other side I am no rigid presbyterian, nor can I comply w[i]th the Scots’: L401; Wildridge, , Hull Letters, pp. 103–4Google Scholar; Holmes, Clive, Seventeenth-Century Lincolnshire (Lincoln, 1980), p. 195.Google Scholar

⁸⁹ This is a reference to a petition that the corporation had had drawn up in London and presented to the Commons ‘for p[ro]cureing from the Parliam[en]t a settled mainteynance for o[u]r ministers, & to have the election of o[u]r owne ministers, and for cutting off the dependence of the parishes from Hessle and Ferreby, and for monies to repaire the ruines about the town as have beene occasioned by the warres …’: HCA, Hull bench bk. 5, pp. 652–3.

⁹⁰ This is probably a reference to John Blakiston, MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the chairman of the Committee for Petitions.

⁹¹ Sir Henry Vane senior, MP for Wilton, Wiltshire, was chairman of the Committee for Revenue.

⁹² Colonel Robert Overton.

⁹³ Miles Corbett, MP for Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and joint chairman with Laurence Whitaker of the Committee of Examinations.

⁹⁴ For the Committee of Examinations' letter to the mayor, signed by Corbett, see Wildridge, , Hull Letters, p. 52Google Scholar. Corbett informed the mayor that the committee had upheld the complaint of James Melthorpe (a mercer and alderman of Beverley, and a subcommissioner for the excise at Hull) that he had been over-assessed by the town authorities. The committee order the mayor to make appropriate redress to Nelthorpe. The town's dispute with Nelthorpe can be followed in the Hull letters and in the corporation minute books: HCA, Hull bench, bk. 5, pp. 620, 651, 652, 664, 712.

⁹⁵ i.e. Nelthorpe.

⁹⁶ Ferdinande 2nd Lord Fairfax, MP for Yorkshire; appointed governor of Hull in July 1643.

⁹⁷ Sir Matthew Boynton resided at Barmston, which lay about 20 miles north of Hull. He was elected a recruiter MP for Scarborough, Yorkshire, in October 1645. The Committee of Examinations order was dated 18 Apr. 1645, and was signed by Laurence Whitaker: HCA, M217.

⁹⁸ In a letter dated from York, 6 Mar. 1645 (L337), Fairfax informed the mayor that he had written on Nelthorpe's behalf to the Committee of Examinations.

⁹⁹ Laurence Whitaker, MP for Shaftesbury, Dorset, and joint chairman, with Miles Corbett, of the Committee of Examinations.

¹⁰⁰ John Wylde, serjeant-at-law and MP for Worcestershire.

¹⁰¹ Sir Michael Wharton of Beverley, Yorkshire.

¹⁰² i.e. Londoners.

¹⁰³ Colonel John Mauleverer. Mauleverer had served as deputy-governor of Hull under Lord Fairfax, and commanded the regiment that garrisoned the town: Firth, Charles and Davies, Godfrey, eds, The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army (Oxford, 1940), p. 529.Google Scholar

¹⁰⁴ Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, had two sons: Philip Sidney, Viscount Lisle, and Algernon Sidney. It is likely that Algernon Sidney was the son referred to here. In 1645, Algernon Sidney was appointed governor of Chichester, which lay close to the Sussex estate of his uncle, the Earl of Northumberland, who had been the younger Vane's patron at Hull in the elections to the Long Parliament: Scott, Jonathan, Algernon Sidney and the English Republic, 1623–1677 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 43.Google Scholar

¹⁰⁵ Sir Thomas Widdrington, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed. Widdrington was Lord Fairfax's son-in-law and man-of-business. He was also chairman of the Northern Committee.

¹⁰⁶ Governor of Hull until forced to resign his commission under the self-denying ordinance.

¹⁰⁷ i.e. The Committee of Examinations.

¹⁰⁸ On 22 Apr. 1645, the Committee of Examinations ordered that John Anlaby, Thomas St. Nicholas, and Richard Darley (all leading Yorkshire committeemen) be added to the committee set up on 18 March, consisting of the mayor, Lord Fairfax, and Sir Matthew Boynton, to examine the dispute between the sub-commissioners of the excise and the Londoners trading at Hull, and the town authorities (see L342): HCA, M220.

¹⁰⁹ On 28 Apr. 1645, the Commons appointed Pelham and Alexander Bence to serve alongside the Earl of Warwick as commissioners to command the fleet over the summer. Pelham and Bence were chosen as experienced seamen: CJ, iv. 125, 128Google Scholar; BL, Add. MS 31116, pp. 413–14.

¹¹⁰ In the event, the appointment of Commons' commissioners to assist the Earl of Warwick was blocked in the Lords, and thus Pelham remained at Westminster: see L361.

¹¹¹ Sir William Strickland, MP for Hedon, Yorkshire.

¹¹² Miles Corbett and Laurence Whitaker.

¹¹³ John Blakiston, the chairman of the Committee for Petitions.

¹¹⁴ A large brass canon throwing a shot of about 200 pounds weight.

¹¹⁵ Henry Pelham, MP for Grantham, Lincolnshire.

¹¹⁶ This is a reference to letters from the Committee of Examinations (L345, L358), dated in April and May, and signed by Laurence Whitaker, ordering the mayor to reduce the ‘heavy and unheard of’ assessments that the town had laid upon Nelthorpe and citizens of London trading in Hull.

¹¹⁷ John Blakiston.

¹¹⁸ Captain William Batten.

¹¹⁹ Alexander Bence.

¹²⁰ Robert Goodwin, MP for East Grimstead, Sussex.

¹²¹ Possibly Samuel Gosse, a citizen of London and receiver of moneys at Guildhall: Calendar of the Committee for Advance of Many, pp. 128–30.Google Scholar

¹²² The Committee of Examinations.

¹²³ The Committee for Revenue.

¹²⁴ The Northern Association ordinance in the Northern Committee.

¹²⁵ The Northern Committee, chaired by Sir Thomas Widdrington.

¹²⁶ Sir Thomas Widdrington.

¹²⁷ The mayor of Hull.

¹²⁸ This is probably a sarcastic reference to Pelham rather than Vane.

¹²⁹ Thorpe was not an MP at this stage.

¹³⁰ Thorpe appears to be referring here to Pelham and Vane respectively. Pelham was named to just eight committees in 1645, which may suggest that he did not attend the Commons on a regular basis.

¹³¹ The gentlemen the corporation named was evidently Sir Matthew Boynton: see L378. The corporation feared that Boynton was eager to promote religious Independency in the town: Wildridge, , Hull Letters, p. 38.Google Scholar

¹³² Henry Barnard was an alderman of Hull.

¹³³ John Blakiston.

¹³⁴ These letters revealed Charles's plans for using Irish and foreign troops in England. The bulk of this correspondence was published by Parliament.

¹³⁵ The ordinance for the Northern Association.

¹³⁶ Miles Corbett and Laurence Whitaker, chairmen of the Committee of Examinations.

¹³⁷ Sir Walter Earle, MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Dorset. He was forced to resign his place as lieutenant of the ordnance by the self-denying ordinance.

¹³⁸ The ordinance for the Northern Association.

¹³⁹ The Northern Association army.

¹⁴⁰ John Blakiston.

¹⁴¹ The king's letters captured at Naseby.

¹⁴² John Wylde.

¹⁴³ John Blakiston.

¹⁴⁴ By September 1645, certainly, Vane was preoccupied with fortifying Raby Castle, in County Durham: Rowe, Vane, p. 82.Google Scholar

¹⁴⁵ Pelham had just married Dame Jacoba van Lore, widow of Sir Peter van Lore.

¹⁴⁶ Welbeck House, Nottinghamshire, where the king arrived on 15 Aug. 1645.

¹⁴⁷ Although dated from Hull, Barnard is evidently writing from London.

¹⁴⁸ In L394.

¹⁴⁹ i.e. His recent marriage.

¹⁵⁰ The new chairman of the Committee for Petitions was John Goodwin, MP for Haslemere, Surrey: L419; CJ, iv. 317.

¹⁵¹ John Blakiston.

¹⁵² The Northern Committee, chaired by Fairfax's son-in-law, Sir Thomas Widdrington.

¹⁵³ The Committee for Petitions.

¹⁵⁴ John Goodwin.

¹⁵⁵ John Rushworth, the secretary of the army.

¹⁵⁶ This last sentence was omitted in Wildridge's transcription.

¹⁵⁷ John Goodwin.

¹⁵⁸ Walter Strickland, the Parliamentary agent in Holland.

¹⁵⁹ i.e. Sir Thomas Fairfax.

¹⁶⁰ Oliver St John, MP for Totnes, Devon, and solicitor-general.

¹⁶¹ John Shawe was lecturer at Trinity Church, Hull: HCA, Hull bench bk. 5, p. 675. For his life and career see Jackson, Charles, ed., ‘The Life of Master John Shaw’, Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesGoogle Scholar, ed. idem (Surtees Society, lxv, 1875); Matthews, A. G., Calamy Revised (Oxford, 1934), pp. 434–5.Google Scholar

¹⁶² Received 5 Dec. 1645.

¹⁶³ An additional ordinance for the maintenance of ministers in the northern parts passed the Commons on 6 Dec. 1645: CJ iv. 367Google Scholar; LJ, viii. 50.Google Scholar

¹⁶⁴ Robert Goodwin.

¹⁶⁵ This letter was not written in Thorpe's hand, but in that of his clerk.

¹⁶⁶ In fact, the town's petition for maintenance of its ministers seems to have remained with the Committee for Petitions: see L420.

¹⁶⁷ The Army Committee.

¹⁶⁸ This letter was written in the same hand as L415.

¹⁶⁹ Samuel Browne, MP for Dartmouth, Devon: see L444, L449, L453, L462, L465.

¹⁷⁰ Sir John Harrington of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex.

¹⁷¹ John Goodwin.

¹⁷² Walter Strickland.

¹⁷³ This letter was written in the same hand as L415.

¹⁷⁴ On 29 Dec. 1645 the Commons passed an order for the payment of £150 per annum out of the York dean and chapter lands for the maintenance of a preaching minister at Hull: CJ iv. 389–90.Google Scholar

¹⁷⁵ A stale was a decoy bird used to entice other birds into a snare or net (OED).

¹⁷⁶ L293 somehow ended up in private hands. Hull City Archives only possess a 19th century typescript of it, in which the spelling has been modernised. Wildridge evidently saw the original, and transcribed the section included here, before it was sold. Its whereabouts are now unknown: Wildridge, ed., Hull Letters, p. 134.

¹⁷⁷ Thorpe is probably referring to Pelham here rather than Vane.

¹⁷⁸ LJ, viii. 80, 81.Google Scholar

¹⁷⁹ William Styles, vicar of Hull. A ‘moderate Puritan’, he was displaced as vicar in 1650 for refusing to take the Engagement: VCH, East Riding, i. 108Google Scholar; CSPD 1650, p. 385Google Scholar; CSPD 1651, p. 22.Google Scholar

¹⁸⁰ John Gurdon, MP for Ipswich, Suffolk.

¹⁸¹ This letter was written in the same hand as 1415.

¹⁸² Sir John Meldrum, a Scot serving in Parliament's northern armies, was killed at the siege of Scarborough in May 1645.

¹⁸³ Francis Bacon, M P for Ipswich, Suffolk.

¹⁸⁴ John Gurdon.

¹⁸⁵ This is a reference to the Glamorgan Treaty - Charles's attempt to make peace with the Confederate Irish and secure Irish troops for use in England. The treaty was brokered for the king by the Earl of Glamorgan. Copies of documents relating to the treaty reached Westminster on 16 Jan. 1646 and were subsequently published (see below): Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, History of the Great Civil War 1642–1649 (1987 edn, 4 vols, London), iii. 30–42.Google Scholar

¹⁸⁶ The Irish Cabinet: or, His Majesties Secret Papers, for Establishing the Papall Clergy in Ireland (London, 1646)Google Scholar, BL, E316/29.

¹⁸⁷ For the town's ministers.

¹⁸⁸ Possibly John Watson, a Hull freeman: HCA, BRG/1, fol. 195.

¹⁸⁹ The outcry made by hounds when they find the game (OED).

¹⁹⁰ Coleman evidently died in March 1646, not early in 1647 as some authorities state: DNB, under ‘Thomas Coleman’.

¹⁹¹ St Michael's Mount in Cornwall.

¹⁹² Samuel Browne. On 26 Mar. 1646, Hull corporation ordered that ‘two barrells of aile shall be sent as a present from ye towne unto Mr. Browne … Mr. Pelham having gyven intimac[i]on soe to do’: HCA, Hull bench bk. 5, p. 709.

¹⁹³ The Answer of the Lords and Commons Assembled in the Parliament of England at Westminster to the Several Papers of the Commissioners of Scotland (London, 1646)Google Scholar, BL, E333/14. This declaration was drawn up in response to papers presented to Parliament by the Scots commissioners the previous Autumn. So blunt was it in reproving the Scots for the ‘free quarterings disorderly plunderings’ of their army in the northern counties, that the Lords apparently refused to join with the Commons in ordering it to be printed. On 14 Apr. 1646, therefore, the Commons ordered it to be printed and published on their own authority: CJ iv. 317, 327, 338, 342, 347, 353, 371, 508Google Scholar; LJ, viii. 34–6Google Scholar; Lindley, Keith and Scott, David, eds, The Journal of Thomas Juxon, 1644–1647 (Camden Soc., 5th ser., xiii, 1999). pp. 114–15.Google Scholar

¹⁹⁴ i.e. The Scots.

¹⁹⁵ This letter was written neither in Thorpe's hand nor that of 1415.

¹⁹⁶ The doctor who accompanied Charles on his flight to the Scots was in fact Dr Michael Hudson.

¹⁹⁷ i.e. A Montero, a Spanish hunter's cap, having a spherical crown and a flap capable of being drawn over the ears (OED).

¹⁹⁸ 4 May 1646.

¹⁹⁹ This sentence is in Thorpe's hand.

²⁰⁰ i.e. 30 Apr. 1646.

²⁰¹ The MPs added to the Army Committee to consider the ordinance for the pay of Hull garrison included Sir Matthew Boynton: CJ, iv. 527.Google Scholar

²⁰² Alexander Leslie, first Earl of Leven.

²⁰³ CJ, iv. 542.Google Scholar

²⁰⁴ Richard Lilly, the clerk of the corporation.

²⁰⁵ Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MS 59, fol. 195: the county committee of York to Lenthall, 15 May 1646. The committee complained that the Scots, having imposed ‘intollerable leavies’ on the North Riding, were intent on moving southwards. They ask the Commons to order the removal of the Scots army from the county.

²⁰⁶ This sentence and the four additional Commons' resolutions passed that day and related by Thorpe are in the same hand as 1452. For the Commons' resolutions concerning the Scots army, see CJ, vii. 551.Google Scholar

²⁰⁷ This is possibly a reference to a Commons' speech by George Thomson, MP for Southwark, on 26 May. Thomson was highly critical of lord mayor of London, Thomas Adams, but it is not known whether he also attacked a member of the House: Lindley, and Scott, , eds, Juxon Journal, p. 124Google Scholar; BL, Browne papers (uncat.): William Garway to Richard Browne, 28 May 1646.

²⁰⁸ The Humble Acknowledgement and Petition of Divers Inhabitants in and about the City of London (London, 1646)Google Scholar, BL, E339/12; CJ, iv. 561.Google Scholar

²⁰⁹ Newcastle was held by the Scots. Parliament had been pressing the Scots to remove their garrisons from Newcastle and other places in northern England since the summer of 1645.

²¹⁰ This is probably the letter from Walter Strickland to Sir Henry Vane (L442) that is printed in Wildridge, , Hull Letters, pp. 145–6Google Scholar. It concerns his efforts to secure redress at Amsterdam for several Hull merchants whose ships had been seized by the Dutch.

²¹¹ Philip Lord Wharton.

²¹² Those MPs nominated to this committee included Sir Henry Vane junior, and Thorpe: CJ iv. 570.Google Scholar

²¹³ i.e. The Committee of Estates.

²¹⁴ This is a reference to the defeat of the Scots' Ulster army by the Irish Confederates at Benburb, County Tyrone, on 5 June 1646. The ‘some who heighten it for other purposes' is probably a reference to the Scots’ more vociferous enemies among the political Independents.

²¹⁵ The Catholic peer and ‘delinquent’, Henry Constable, first Viscount Dunbar [S], was lord of seigniory of Holderness and owned extensive property in the Hull area.

²¹⁶ i.e. The Hollander, de Witt, who Thorpe mentions in 1468.

²¹⁷ i.e. For permission to petition the king for his help in securing the release of several Hull merchantmen captured by the Dutch: see 1468.

²¹⁸ i.e. Anglesey.

²¹⁹ Pelham is probably referring here to John Ashe, MP for Westbury, Wiltshire.

²²⁰ i.e. Drogheria.

²²¹ John Stephens, MP for Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

²²² The identity of this man has been impossible to establish.

²²³ The commissioners to present the Newcastle Propositions to the king were the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Walter Earle, Sir John Hippisley, Robert Goodwyn, Luke Robinson.

²²⁴ Thorpe has missed out a word, presumably ‘debate’, in turning over to write on a new sheet.

²²⁵ Manifest Truths, or an inversion of Truths Manifest (London, 1646)Google Scholar, BL, E343/1. This tract was written by the Yorkshire Presbyterian minister, Edward Bowles, in answer to that of the Scottish apologist, Buchanan, David, Truth its Manifest (London, 1645)Google Scholar, BL, E1174/4. Bowles was particularly concerned to challenge Buchanan's criticism of the Parliamentary commissioners in the north (who were mostly political Independents), to whom Bowles had served as chaplain: Bodl., Nalson MS 111, fol. 315; Scott, David, ‘The “Northern Gentlemen”, the Parliamentary Independents, and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Long Parliament’, HJ xlii (1999), p. 364 and n. 94.Google Scholar

²²⁶ Gilbert Millington, MP for Nottingham.

²²⁷ i.e. The manor house.

²²⁸ i.e. The Committee of Estates.

²²⁹ Colonel Christopher Legard of Anlaby, a near kinsman of Sir John Hotham: Legard, J. Digby, The Legards of Anlaby and Ganton (London, 1926), pp. 27, 84–5.Google Scholar

²³⁰ John Stephens and Gilbert Millington.

²³¹ Probably the under-clerk of the Parliaments (clerk of the Commons), Henry Elsynge.

²³² This letter has been misdated in the calendar as 21 Dec. 1644.

²³³ He probably means Pelham rather than Vane.

²³⁴ Robert Scawen, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed and chairman of the Army Committee.

²³⁵ CJ, v. 561–2.Google Scholar

²³⁶ This letter was written in what seems to be the same hand as 1452.

²³⁷ For contemporary accounts of this fracas at Westminster, see A Trve Relation of the Passages between the Sunen Petitioners and the Souldiers at Westminster, May the 16. 1648 (London 1648)Google Scholar, BL, E443/5; The Sad, and Bloody Fight at Westminster between the Souldiers of the Parliaments Guard and the Club-Men of Svrrey (London, 1648), BL, E443/17.Google Scholar

²³⁸ An ordinance for ‘setding the Militia in the Northern Counties’ was passed in the Commons on Monday 22 May, and Thorpe was appinted to carry it to the Lords for their concurrence: CJ, v. 569.Google Scholar

²³⁹ From May 1648 some of the newsbooks were reporting that Hull was arming for the king: Mercurius Melancholicus, no. 38 (London, 8–15 05 1648), p. 228Google Scholar (BL, E442/14).

²⁴⁰ Alderman John Ramsden. The corporation instructed Ramsden to deliver letters to Pelham, Thorpe, Vane, and Widdrington, and to ‘desire their sev[er]all assistance’: HCA, M232: Instructions to John Ramsden, 20 Dec. 1647.

²⁴¹ Colonel Robert Overton. The New Model Army and its supporters had become suspicious of Hull's Presbyterian-dominated bench, and late in 1647 Oliver Cromwell had prevailed upon Sir Thomas Fairfax to replace Colonel Mauleverer with Overton, a sectarian, as his deputy-governor: BL, Sloane MS 1519, fol. 169; L486.

²⁴² For the matter of the pistols, see L502.

²⁴³ Henry Darley, MP for Northallerton, Yorkshire.

²⁴⁴ James Chaloner, MP for Aldborough, Yorkshire.

²⁴⁵ Pelham and Vane appear to have been more active in this role than Thorpe, Chaloner and Darley: CJ, v. 615Google Scholar; CSPD 1648–9, pp. 88, 102, 104, 105, 110, 111, 112–13, 115, 118, 119, 124.Google Scholar

²⁴⁶ Relations between the town authorities and the garrison became strained in 1648 as a result of the billeting of troops in Hull and Overton's sectarian sympathies: L487, L488; HCA, M234; VCH, East Riding, i. 106.Google Scholar

²⁴⁷ Probably the distinguished lawyer, Matthew Hale.